Mike Macdonald's Transport History Pages

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The following are some references I found in response to inquiries I received on this website:

Admiral Scheer (12,000displ., cruiser) ½Anglo-Saxon Tankers (Norwegian flag) ½ Arandora Star (1927) ½ Armed Merchant Cruisers ½ Go to Bulolo ½Canonesca (1920) ½Conte Rosso (1922) ½ Go to German Commerce Raiders ½Italian (passenger) ships ½ Luckner, Felix Graf von ½ Maracaibo Lake tankers ½ Mont Blanc (1899) Explosion, 1917½Norwegian Merchant Fleet, 1939-45 ½ Go to "Operation Torch" for link to website ½Orient Line references ½Orion (1935, liner) ½ Oslofjord, Loss of ½ Passenger Lists ½ Rawalpindi (1925, Armed Merchant Cruiser) ½Royal Navy Personnel Records ½ SD14s ½Ship plans (for model makers) ½Strathallan (1938, liner) ½ Stuttgart (AG Vulkan, Stettin 1923/13,483grt, liner, later hospital ship ½ Troopships & Trooping ½

Anglo-Saxon tankers (Norwegian flag), Gard and the: http://www.gard.no/Publish/gardnews/gn746/gn746.html The inter-war Norwegian-flag Anglo-Saxon tankers, insured by the Gard insurance company; includes fleet list and some vessel histories.

Arandora Star websites: http://www.carndonagh.com/arandora and

http://www.rossespoint.com/arandora_star.htm 

Armed Merchant Cruisers: http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/anf/amc.htm German text

http://mns.ewebs.com/Burns_Philp/

http://www.internet-promotions.co.uk/archives/caithness/rawalpindi.htm Description of the action, 23 November 1939, in which Rawalpindi was sunk by the German battle-cruiser Scharnhorst.

http://british-forces.com/world_war2/Navy/torch-naval.html 

Borgestad (1925) vs Admiral Hipper/Convoy SLS64, 12 Feb 1941: (Then click on hyperlink down to "Naval Warfare")

Canonesca (Workman & Clark 1920/8,286grt, Houlder Brothers) & Convoy HX72 http://www.canonesa.care4free.net/can1.html

Circassia (Barrow Shipbuilding Co., Barrow-in-Furness 1878). To see photograph:

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/k/r/u/Christian-A-Krupsha-PA/PHOTO/ and scroll down to "Steamship Circassia" (46kb) hyperlink; click on link.

Conte Rosso (Wm. Beardmore & Co.Ltd., Dalmuir No.611/1922/18,017grt, Lloyd Sabaudo Line) http://www.geocities.com/luciatagg/ta06000.htm which gives a "manifest" (passenger list) of the Conte Rosso voyage of 1 September 1924. For description of the Conte Rosso, see also the Italian ships website: http://shiplover.virtualave.net/Italy.html

The history of both this and the previous Conte Rosso of 1914, which was completed as the aircraft carrier Argus, are given in Ian Johnston's book: Beardmore Built: The Rise & Fall of a Clydeside Shipyard. For photograph of the Conte Rosso (1922), try Glasgow University Archives: e-mail: dutyarch@archives.gla.ac.uk

http://www.naval-history.net/WW2CampaignsBalkans.htm

Dunedin: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nzbound/nzbound/dunedin.htm Barque, arrived 23/1/1856 Otago Harbour (84 days).

http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/ozatwar/germanmines.htm

http://british-forces.com/world_war2/Campaigns/german_commerceraiders.html

http://mns.ewebs.com/Other_Fleets/ Australian Merchant Navy website refers to German raiders active in the Pacific, WW2.

There are German language sites under the term "hilfskreuzer", e.g.,

http://home.t-online.de/home/jgust/hilfs_1.htm

For Felix Graf von Luckner: http://riv.co.nz/rnza/tales/vonluckner1.htm (English text)

"Seeteufel": Felix Graf von Luckner: http://home.t-online.de/home/ogfreitin/luckner.htm (German text)

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-l/agtr5.htm

ss Mont Blanc (Sir Raylton Dixon 1899)/The Halifax Explosion: 6th December 1917: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/kylet1/halifax.htm

Norwegian Merchant Fleet, 1939-1945: http://www.warsailors.com/materials/norfleet.html A huge, comprehensive online history site, including ship particulars and histories (alphabetical listing), with related pages covering Arctic Convoys, U-boats, etc.

Orion (Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow 1935, liner): http://www.angelfire.com/on3/rmsorion/history.htm 

 Oslofjord, Loss of: http://www.divernet.com/wrecks/1001qanda.htm "Diver" magazine (online edition), October 2001, brief reference. For the mining of the Oslofjord (1938), and the wartime history of other Norwegian merchant ships, see also: Norwegian Merchant Fleet

Passenger Lists: Try The ShipsList Home Page: http://www.theshipslist.com/index.html

which includes some Passenger Lists of emigrant ships to North America, Australia and New Zealand.

Passenger Arrivals at Port Chalmers, NZ, 1848-1851: http://www.ngaiopress.com/drhocken.htm

P&O History and Archives website: http://www.p-and-o.com/POHistory/index.htm

Public Record Office: http://www.pro.gov.uk/index.htm

http://www.internet-promotions.co.uk/archives/caithness/rawalpindi.htm

Royal Navy: Sources of Personnel Records: (from Rita Bryon's Maritime Information: A Guide to Libraries & Sources of Information in the United Kingdom)

Dates up to 1939: CSR(2) Navy Search, Ministry of Defence, Bourne Avenue, Hayes, Middlesex UB3 1RF - "These records are available, by written request, only, to relatives able to produce proof of kinship before information is released ..."

Dates post-1939: PP1 A1, HMS CENTURION, Grange Road, Gosport, Hampshire, PO13 9XA - "records are available by written request to relatives ... "

SD14 websites: SD14 - Tweendecker: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~marine2/home.htm

SD14 photographs: http://www.ship-photos.com/SD14.html

Ship plans (for model makers): Probably the quickest and cheapest way of finding ship plans is to go to back issues of one of the commercial shipping magazines, e.g., Motor Ship, The Shipbuilder, Shipbuilding & Shipping Record. These have all included articles about "important" new ships; descriptions, photographs and General Arrangement drawings, and the magazines (usually) published indexes of contents, annually.

To find which maritime libraries hold which magazines, go first to Library holdings of maritime periodicals on this website; you will find a list of "holding libraries" opposite each magazine title. To find the addresses of the appropriate "holding libraries", go next to Maritime Libraries & Archives ; these libraries should be able to tell you whether or not they have the issue of the magazine that you require, and how much they might charge you to have photocopies of (any) plans made.

Ship plans (alternatively): Simply key the terms "ship plans" into your Internet search engine; there are pages of websites giving access to information about ship plans. For example, try the (British) National Maritime Museum (Greenwich): http://www.nmm.ac.uk/

Strathallan (Vickers, Barrow 1938/23,500grt, liner and troopship, P&O): http://ozhoo.net.au/~strathsisters/strathallan/strathallan9.htm Excerpts from Diary of the late John A. Leslie (Engineer) reproduced with kind permission from Mrs Mary Leslie.

Stuttgart (AG Vulkan, Stettin 1923/13,483grt, liner, later hospital ship, † 10/9/1943):

"Lazarettschiff C": http://www.feldgrau.com/hs-stuttgart.html Description and career.

Sea Breezes magazine published a series of articles "Steamers of the Past" which included the troopship service of a number of passenger liners, e.g. Bulolo (Barclay, Curle 1938), Sea Breezes August 1990. I have a copy of an index of the "Steamers of the Past" articles.

Troop Transports, Australian: http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/~rmallett/Transports.html

List of merchant ships used as troop transports by the Commonwealth of Australia during WWI, including fates, and includes photograph of HMAT Warilda (Beardmore 1912/7,785grt, Adelaide S.S.Co.), which was torpedoed and sunk by a submarine in the English Channel, 3 August1918.

Batory (Riuniti Adriatico-Monfalcone 1936/14,237grt, Gdynia-America Shipping Line Ltd)

http://stefanbatoryoceanliner.homestead.com/PredecessorsPhotos.html

and http://www.maxpages.com/ourlostfamily/Details1 (which gives a full description of Batory as built)

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